Fall 2013 Seminars

FALL, 2013 SCHEDULE

International Trade Seminar

Spring 2013

DATE / SPEAKER / PRESENTATION

September 19
Arnaud Costinot, MIT

“Comparative Advantage and Optimal Trade Taxes”

September 26
Peter Neary, University of Oxford
“Not so Demanding: Preference Structure, Firm Behavior, and Welfare”

October 3
Thomas Holmes University of Minnesota
“Quid Pro Quo: Technology Capital Transfers for Market Access in China”

October 10
Amit Khandelwal, Columbia University
“Measuring the Unequal Gains from Trade”

October 17
Cheng Chen, Princeton University
“Management Quality, Firm Organization and International Trade”

October 24 
Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe, University of Oslo
“Two-Sided Heterogeneity and Trade”

October 31 – No Trade seminar (Fall Break)

November 7 – No Trade seminar (Department-wide seminar)

November 14
Cecile Gaubert, Princeton University
“Firm Sorting and Agglomeration”

November 21
Phyllis Kit Yee Sun, Princeton University
“A Theory of Worker-Level Comparative Advantage and Task Specialization within Jobs”

November 28 – No Trade seminar (Thanksgiving)

December 5
No seminar

December 12
Eliav Danziger, Princeton University 
Skill Acquisition and the Dynamics of Trade Induced Inequality”

ALL SEMINARS WILL TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAYS FROM 4:15 TO 5:45 P.M. IN 200 FISHER HALL UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. 

For further information, contact Sharon Ernst at sernst@princeton.edu or 258-5715.